Tuesday, August 05, 2003

American Gallery of Psychiatric Art: Sanity for Sale: 1960-2000,

As reviewed here by Craig Stoltz

American Gallery of Psychiatric Art: Sanity for Sale: 1960-2000

Here's a couple of nippets:

Some of the imagery is spectacularly revealing about drug makers' and clinicians' developing views of the mentally ill.

THE BOTTOM LINE

If the gallery makes you think psychiatry is moving entirely out of the Dark Ages, take a look at the final ad, from the '90s, for something called the Thymatron DGx brief pulse electroconvulsive therapy machine. Its headline: "Quality ECT, at last."


I shudder.

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